Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!adm!xadmx!mcvax!spider.co.uk!nick@uunet.uu.net From: mcvax!spider.co.uk!nick@uunet.uu.net (Nick Felisiak) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Worm/Passwords Message-ID: <17526@adm.BRL.MIL> Date: 15 Nov 88 03:07:11 GMT Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL Lines: 25 John F. Haugh II writes: > My favorite - how much time do you spend explaining to your users not > to tell their passwords to everyone else in the entire company? > Our users routinely login as each other to avoid having to copy files > back and forth between accounts. Nice, eh? Perhaps I'm just a simple developer not caught up in the wave of paranoia, but I trust my associates, and really don't worry too much if they login as me, if I've had an attack of paranoia and protected something they have a need to access. If it wern't for the fact that our machines are accessible to the outside world on phone lines, I'd argue very strongly that we should avoid passwords at all costs! Come on now, most of us are on the same side, aren't we? -- - Usual disclaimers. -- Nick Felisiak Spider Systems Ltd nick@spider.co.uk uunet!ukc!spider!nick